Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Rockefeller Conservatives

Rick Lazio is a progressive Republican in the Rockefeller tradition. There is little conservative about him. Hence it is a puzzle why Mike Long and the Conservative Party, chose to support him. I raised this question at the Tea Party meeting where I gave a pro-Paladino talk last night, and one of the CP people in the audience said that the rank-and-file and leadership in Ulster County, NY opposed Lazio. But this was also true of the Ulster County GOP, for the Catskills and Hudson Valley still have a living libertarian tradition. As I said to the Conservative Party guy at our meeting, I always knew that Rockefeller Republicans were prominent in the GOP, but I never knew that Rockefeller Conservatives were prominent in the CP.

Does the Conservative Party serve any purpose? Might conservatives find better representation in a Paladino-led GOP?

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I have researched and written about employee benefit issues and in my previous life was a corporate benefits administrator. I am currently associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. I hold a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from UCLA and an AB from Sarah Lawrence College. I am working on a project involving public policy. I blog on academic and political topics.